Getting Things Done

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 07:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> > You are implying that we give out FDSCo membership as a prize for people
> > who do something, which could not be further from the truth.  
> 
> What I am saying is that a steering committee only makes sense to me 
> when there is a large team of members participating which is not the 
> case here similar to art team and not like packaging. When you are small 
> team, being loosely organized is a plus.

We aren't a small team, really.  F7 probably saw participation from 45
people in producing content included in the distro.  I include l10n for
more reasons than just because you dismiss tools as not being of value
to Fedora end-users.  I notice that the number of translations has
*increased* release after release, and this is a direct result of tools
and processes and leadership.  How can you dismiss that so casually?

As we now know, content creation and translation are intimately
connected projects.  We need strong leadership in both areas to ensure
success.  Loosely organized quickly becomes, "I don't know who to talk
to about X."

Art Team is a difficult analogy to the Docs Project.  For a while, we
had someone who was paid by Red Hat to lead that effort.  This is part
of why Mike can run a different organization, he's the guy who is in
charge because Red Hat pays him to be in charge.  No one has ever been
paid to work on Fedora content, beyond the stuff Tammy did at the
beginning, and the early FC release notes Ed worked on.  Mainly, no one
has been paid to lead.  

Seeing the writing on the wall (so to speak), I decided for the
betterment of the project *and* myself to set the goal to grow enough
leaders in this project so that I could be replaced.

So, just when I have things in place where I can transition that
leadership off my shoulders and onto someone else from the community,
your big idea again is ... what?

Anyway, that's why this is a bit of a silly distraction.  Save it for
when the proof is there one way or the other.

- Karsten
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